has cut into new channels or re-explored
century-old ones that have since been
redeveloped. A five-kilometer berm
intended to stop the channel migration is in
the approval stage with the province and
landowners and could be ready for
construction as soon as this fall.
The $3.5millionproject will be paid for out
of flood-mitigation funds set aside by the
province in2013.
Also on the agenda is a reconstruction of
Acme Road over Highway 2, which, in
Morrison’s estimation, will “promote goods
being moved on a better road from the west
side to the east side of the county.”
It was an old county road and engineering
for its full replacement was begun in 2007.
Half the construction was completed last
year, and that half will be paved this year,
Morrison said. The other half, he said, will
be done in phases over the next few years in
linewithother roadpriorities.
The budget for the entire Acme project was
$7 million, and, not surprisingly, much of
Morrison’s outlook for the future revolves
around similarly large numbers, local input
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Mountain View County
WHAT:
Municipality, comprised of the towns of Carstairs,
Didsbury, Olds and Sundre, and the village of
Cremona, that’s home to 12,359 residents
(as of the 2011 federal census)
WHERE:
South central Alberta, about 100 kilometers
north of Calgary and 200 kilometers south of
Edmonton
WEBSITE:
www.MountainViewCounty.com
and circumstance.
“We do have long-term planning here, and
the only thing it depends on is public
opinion and need for the county,” he said.
“Sometimes you have a five-year plan and
something comes up, you have a major
disaster or some sort of road doesn’t
perform or a new industry moves to the
county and creates more traffic. That does
alter that five-year plan.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to see those things
coming and plan for them a little bit better
so we can start building infrastructure
around it.”
